Although surface water constitutes less than 1.5% of freshwater supply, historical development of surface water sources continues to mark the landscape. However, over- exploitation of groundwater is now at its highest, and 25% of the world’s 1.7 billion population live in water scare regions. As glaciers and snowpack disappear due...
Groundwater is often misunderstood because of its subsurface nature. Consequently, policies intended to govern the resource are fragmented as is evident in the Supreme Court case between Mississippi and Tennessee. Here, disagreements over ownership and the scientific-hydrogeological scope of groundwater in the Memphis Sand Aquifer have led to an 11-year...
The Grants Pass Batholith of Cretaceous age has intruded the
Triassic Applegate Group and metasedimentary rocks of the Jurassic
Galice Formation in the Murphy area of Josephine County, southwest
Oregon. The Applegate Group, mafic volcanic and sedimentary rock,
has been partially (nonequilibrium) metamorphosed under greenschist
facies conditions. The batholith, a...
Groundwater resources have become seriously threatened
due to improper use by industrial, municipal, and even public
sectors. Widespread contamination of aquifer systems has
jeopardized human health and the environment and methods for
restoring these systems are needed. Biological and chemical
in situ remediation, where contaminants are degraded within
the natural...
This study was undertaken to gain further
understanding of the subsurface hydrology for a stream-adjacent
riparian area in Western Oregon's Coast Range.
Spatial and temporal fluctuations of the free water
surface of a toeslope, adjacent riparian area, and stream
channel in a forested terrace reach were monitored over a
period...
In order to determine how contaminants from pharmaceutical, agriculture, and industry will move through groundwater systems, it is imperative to further our understanding of the relationship between physical, biological, and chemical properties of aquifers and transport and transformation of these products. Several studies have explored how heterogeneities in groundwater systems...
Groundwater is a vital resource and efforts must be made to protect its quality. In certain areas, its quality has been
threatened by the introduction of oil and gasoline, many times originating from underground storage tanks. Massachusetts has
directly reacted to this concern about groundwater quality by promulating a Massachusetts...
Enzymes play an important role in the environment, they breakdown natural-occurring and anthropogenic molecules so that they can be transported into cells and utilized. Enzyme assays are routinely used in soil science and oceanography to measure the activities of specific processes and to serve as general indicators of microbial activity....
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The work reported herein constitutes a final report for a project funded by the U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Water Resources and Technology, Grant No. 14-31-0001-4218.
The objective of this study was to develop a numerical model for the movement
and fate of chlorinated phenols in groundwater. In the first part, a numerical model for
several different equilibrium and nonequilibrium sorption processes under isothermal
conditions is developed for one-dimensional, steady-state water flow in soil columns.
The...
A method was developed for assessing the vulnerability
of groundwater to contamination from contaminant sources
at the soil surface, using a numerical groundwater flow
model linked to a digital map database. The method was
applied using the pcARC/INFO Geographic Information System
(GIS) to input, store, and manipulate base maps, resulting...
Fine particles and colloids, attached to grain surfaces, are abundant in the earth's subsurface. Under certain conditions these particles can be released from the matrix and transported with the mobile phase. One of the mechanisms for sudden particle release is a decrease in groundwater salt concentration below the critical salt...
A thermodynamic analysis of forced geoheat recovery from aquifers
has been accomplished. The system investigated consists of a single
recharging-discharging well pair, in a horizontally extensive aquifer,
with either power generation or space heating as surface applications.
The space heating systems investigated are (i)direct heating, (ii)heat
pumps and (iii)a combination...
This research focused on the enhanced reductive dechlorination of trichloroethene (TCE) and its surrogate, trichlorofluoroethene (TCFE), using two bioremediation methods in anaerobic conditions. Two anaerobic bioremediation studies were conducted to investigate the effects of microbial communities in the presence of different electron acceptors and donors during anaerobic reductive dechlorination of...